ABOUT

I am a curator, scholar, educator, and performance-based artist. In my work, I draw on visual and performance studies, queer theory, critical race studies, and postcolonial theory in order to demonstrate how performance and performative art can expose the colonialist structures and histories embedded within arts institutions and contemporary art.

My research unfolds through scholarly writing and through collaborative, site-informed artistic projects that draw upon curatorial and performance methods, the later of which have been supported by the MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, the Graham Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission.

I am an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Colby College, where I teach courses in contemporary art, performance, spatial practice, and critical race and post-colonial studies. Prior to joining Colby, I held curatorial positions at the Walker Art Center, at the Whitney Museum of American Art through the Independent Study Program, and I worked in the Academic Programs Department at the Hammer Museum. I earned my PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.

My writing is published in ASAP/Journal, Theatre Journal, Cultural Dynamics, Third Text, Performance Matters, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Lateral, and X-TRA. My writing also appears in a number of anthologies and art catalogues, including A.A.H.D.H. published with the Whitney Museum of Art and Side by Side: Collaborative Artistic Practices in the United States, 1960s-1980s with the Walker Art Center. As a performer, I worked with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Maria Hassabi, Jérôme Bel, Meredith Monk, Marina Abramović, Alex Shilling, and Sarah Leddy.